Garment-hanger.



No. 756,588. PATENTED APR. 5, 1904. J. D. GONE Y & W. H. OLMSTEAD.GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 10. 1903.

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UNITE STATES Patented April 5, 1904.

PATENT EEIcE.

JAMES D. (JONEY AND WILLIAM H. OLMSTEAD, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN;

GARMENT-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 756,588 dated April 5,1904.

Application filed February 10, 1903. Serial No. 142,755. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, J lines D. CoNEY and WVILLIAM H. OLMSTEAD, citizensof the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne andState of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGarment-Hangers, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The invention has particular reference to a hanger or support fortrousers adapted to be applied to the bottoms of the legs of thegarment, so that the latter may be suspended from the hanger, permittingits weight to remove the wrinkles.

The invention consists in the novel construction of a folding hanger andin the peculiar arrangement and combination of its various parts, aswill be more fully hereinafter set forth, and shown in the drawings, inwhich Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved garment-hanger.Fig. 2 is a vertical central section through the hinge upon which thehanger-sections turn, and Fig. 3 is an end elevation.

In the drawings thus briefly described, A and B represent the clampingmembers adapted to clasp the bottom edges of the garment and to belocked in their clamped position by means of locking devices presentlyto be described. Supporting-arms C of equal length are secured to theclamping members, one pair being connected to each plate, asillustrated. The lower ends of the arms are fastened in any suitablemanner to the clamps near their extremities, while the opposite or upperarm ends converge and meet atacentral point relative to the arms to formthe hinge. The upper ends of the arms, as shown, terminate in eyes orloops D, arranged in axial alinement in parallelism with the clamps, andthrough the series of loops extends a pivot E, upon which the twosections of the'hanger turn.

F design ates a supporting-hook for the gar merit-support, having formedthereon a loop the full lines in Fig. 1, when the hanger is not in use.The application of the garment-support is obvious. When applied to thegarment, the members A andB are clamped thereto by locking-rings H,which engage adjoining pairs of supporting-arms.

It will be seen from the construction of the device as set forth that itmay be very cheaply manufactured, is of simple and durable con-,struction, and may be folded into compact form for transportation orstorage. Attention is also directed to the fact that while a preferableform of supporting-arm is shown having a particular style of loop or eyeformed thereon we do not wish to be limited to this construction, as ourinvention consists, essentially, of clamping members having supports ofany type, which in turn are provided with loops or eyes joined by aconnecting member which engages the eyes.

What we claim as our invention is In a garment-hanger, the combinationwith complementary clamping members, of supporting-arms for andconnected thereto, loops at the upper ends of the arms arranged in axialalinement, a supporting-hook provided with a loop forming one of theseries of armloops, and a pivot engaging said series of loops.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

JAMES D. CONEY. IVILLIAM H. OLMSTEAD.

Witnesses: Y

J. BARRY,- M. B. ODoeHERTY.

